The holiday season is always so much fun! This year I went digital with my Christmas Scrapbook (in 2010 my family one will be digital as well) Here are some of the pages I have done. I do have a few more to do. It was so much fun to create them! Enjoy!!
Taking an hour out of a busy work week to make cookies with the kids is a PRICELESS thing! The holidays are so busy and we often get so caught up in it that we don't take time to really enjoy it. It is so important to take the time to build those special memories with our kids! I have fond memories of making cookies with my mom and sister when I was a kid. I can remember making frosting for the cut out cookies with my sister- and trying to make the cookies look as good as a picture and eating the stars for the peanut blossom cookies. Ahhhh memories that make me smile. I hope that my kids look back at their childhood holidays and smile too!
YUMMM!Christmas is full of tradition for our family. One of the fun traditions comes from the city we live in. Each Christmas Santa comes around the neighborhoods on a fire truck! It is sooooo much fun to see how excited the kids get when they hear the sirens of the truck and police car. Dayne went running this year when he heard it! They waited with their coats on for about 30 minutes! After they get to see Santa waving and get a candy cane, they give a canned good to one of the fire fighters and it goes to a local food shelf! The holidays are so much fun with all of the special things we do!
Waiting outside of the Santa Experience-- ahhh they love each other!
Rich checking out the picture that Lylah's friend brought to show Santa
Santa gave Lylah and Dayne "five" for being good kids. They told him what they wanted- Lego's, trains, and games for Dayne and dolls, "water slide" (I have no idea??) and princess for Lylah
Both of them actually were so excited to sit on his lap! A HUGE improvement over last year.Each year Sinterklaas comes to visit and it is always fun for the kids to see what surprises he brings. The kids left a shoe by their bedroom door (you are suppose to leave it outside but it was so cold the kids thought Sinterklaas might want to warm up) for Sinterklaas to leave some treats. As you can see Lylah was so excited to open up her princess toy it went flying! Dayne got some fun cars and they both got lots of books! 
Halloween this year was a lot of fun with the kids. This year I let the kids decide what they wanted to be. I really wanted them to match but gave up when Lylah saw the picture of a Sun costume in a magazine. Once she saw it that was it! She was going to be the Sun! It should have been an easy costume to make- but who knew finding a yellow sweatshirt be so hard! But we did finally find one and Lylah became the sun! Dayne wanted to be a Super Hero because he said he WAS a Super Hero. So I looked online and found a Super Hero shirt with a silver cap! It was pretty cool and he LOVED it!
We have a few traditions when it comes to Halloween. We go to the Clubhouse to the party. Here Lylah is playing the Pumpkin Walk!
Next stop was story time. The kids listen to a story that really isn't too scary!
Since Halloween was on a Saturday it was hard to keep the kids from Trick or Treating so at 5:30 we headed out! They were so excited. Another tradition is for us to Trick or Treat with Dayne and Lylah's friends William and Bennett and their Dad. It is a lot of fun and this year we really had to run to keep up with them. 
Our Super Here Dayne!
Our Sun Lylah
